1. Chapter 27: Walking into Freedom Land: The Civil Rights Movement, 1941–1973
iClicker Questions for America’s History, Seventh Edition and America: A Concise History, Fifth Edition

2. 10 percent 20 percent 25 percent 30 percent
1. In 1950 African Americans accounted for what percentage of the U.S. population?
10 percent
20 percent
25 percent
30 percent

3. Native American pressure poll tests literacy tests fraud
2. Which of the following was not a method that whites used to prevent blacks from voting in the South?
Native American pressure
poll tests
literacy tests
fraud

4. 3. Downtown black neighborhoods in northern states were known as
reservations.
ghettoes.
barrios.
suburbia.

5. major league baseball boxing basketball football
4. Which of the following sports did Jackie Robinson integrate in 1947?
major league baseball
boxing
basketball
football

6. 5. The Voting Rights Act of 1965
contributed greatly to the number of blacks who were able to vote.
had very little effect on federal elections due to the resistance of whites.
helped northern blacks to vote but did not change conditions in most of the South.
was repealed the following year when Democratic senators opposed the legislation.

7. 6. Which of the following African American men was not a prominent NAACP lawyer during the 1930s?
Thurgood Marshall
Charles Hamilton Houston
Stokely Carmichael
William Hastie

8. 7. All of the following are true about the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. except
it happened in 1968.
it took place in the South.
Congress sought to implement King's vision of social justice through legislation.
The Nation of Islam assassinated King

9. 8. Which of the following statements best describes President Eisenhower’s view of civil rights?
He was a major champion of the movement.
He was an ardent segregationist.
He thought the Brown decision a mistake and did not champion civil rights.
He favored the idea of using federal power to enforce Brown.

10. 9. Mexican American civil rights activists
established much greater unity than did similar movements among African Americans.
faced significant challenges in the United States due to language barriers, poverty, and uncertain legal status.
consistently called for assimilation into mainstream society.
found the black civil rights movement a poor model to follow.

11. 10. All of the following figured into the Montgomery Bus Boycott except
Malcolm X closely assisted Martin Luther King Jr. during the movement.
Rosa Parks ignited the movement when she refused to give up her seat to a white man.
the boycott lasted more than a year.
the black church was a central organizing point for the boycott.

12. Answer is A Answer is B Answer is C Answer is D
Answer Key for Chapter 27
Answer is A
Answer is B
Answer is C
Answer is D